Jacques Jouanna, Henri

Charles-Jules-Henri Nicolle

sia. Nicolle's many accomplishments include the discovery that epidemic typhus is transmitted by body lice (Pediculus humanis corporis), discovery of the phenomenon of inap-parent infection, and possibly the first isolation of human influenza virus after experimental transmission. Nicolle made many other fundamental contributions to knowledge of infectious diseases. This year is the centenary o...

Jacques Loeb

1890 1. Die SehstSrungen nach Verletzung der Grosshimrinde. Nach Versuchen am Hunde. I, Arch. ges. Physiol., 1884, xxxiv, 67-114. 2. Die Sehst6rungen nach Verletzung der Grosshirnrinde. Nach Versuchen am Hunde. II. Die Natur der Sehst6rungen, Arch. ges. Physiol., 1884, xxxiv, 115-172. 3. Die elementaren St6rungen einfacher Funktionen nach oberfl~chlicher, umschriebener Verletzung des Grosshirns...

Jacques Tits

Armand Borel As I Knew Him. I do not remember exactly when I first met Armand Borel. It may have been in Paris in 1949 or in Zürich in 1950. After that we often met, and we soon became good friends. He liked to recall jokingly that he was the one from whom I learned that there existed five exceptional simple Lie groups, the study of which became for a while, shortly afterward, my special trade....

Henri De Mondeville *

Henri ’ s Crystal Ball

O n April 10, 1908, at the general session of the Fourth International Congress of Mathematicians held in Rome, Gaston Darboux presented a talk by Henri Poincaré (1854–1912) entitled The Future of Mathematics (Poincaré was unfortunately unable to deliver the talk himself). The original can be found on the web at: http://gallica. bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k17083c/f934n10. capture. It is now a full c...